Department for International Development

Ministerial Correction

the earl of courtown: In my closing speech of a debate on 8th January on adolescent girls in fragile and conflict affected states I stated “In 2017-18, the UK reached 1.3 million children with education”. The correct statistic is “From 2015 to 2018 UK Aid supported 11.4 million children to gain a decent education.”

Home Office

Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill

baroness williams of trafford: My rt hon Friend the Minister of State for Security (Ben Wallace) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:I am today placing in the Library of the House the Department’s analysis of the application of Standing Order 83L of the Standing Orders of the House in respect of the Government amendments tabled for Commons Report stage of the Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill scheduled for 30 January 2018. The analysis should be read alongside annex A to the Explanatory Notes to the Bill.


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Ministry of Justice

United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT)

lord keen of elie: My right honourable friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (David Gauke) has made the following Written Statement."The OPCAT, which the UK ratified in December 2003, requires States Parties to establish a “National Preventive Mechanism” (NPM) to carry out visits to places of detention to prevent torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. The Government established the independent UK NPM in March 2009, and extended its membership in December 2013, and in January 2017. The UK NPM is currently composed of 21 scrutiny bodies covering the whole of the UK, and prepares annual reports on its activities. It also has an independent website at www.nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk Following previous practice, I have presented to Parliament the 9th NPM’s annual report (Command Paper CP 17). This report covers the period from 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018. This year we mark 10 years since the establishment of the NPM, and I continue to commend the important work that the NPM has carried out over this period and the NPM’s independent role in safeguarding the human rights of detainees across the UK. I also note the NPM’s observations around prisons, children in detention, police custody, immigration detention, health and social care detentions, and court custody."


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